Quote Originally Posted by Jack Lusted View Post
In Empire if you want you can research tech from slightly beyond the time frame covered by the game if you put the effort into it. So that's why you might see Steam ships in the campaign.

And America will be playable.
Right. I have the feeling you are also going to tell me that Empire will have sails and ensigns that 'follow' the wind direction, as per the screenshot I posted above in this thread. If that is the case I will gladly give up sex for this game as well - at least until Trafalgar...